Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross investigate Black representation in the Neon-backed documentary out this summer. As the documentary tells us, L’Esperance was spotted working a counter at a Los ...

Beacon was the face of the popular software program ''Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" before an apparent disappearance. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The film will profile the influential Black ...

Though the name "Mavis Beacon" might not mean much to modern-day kids, to those who came of age in the late 1980s and 1990s, it surely does. "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was a software program ...

But who is the woman behind the program? As Adrienne Hankin, public relations director for tech company Mindscape, told the New York Times in 1998: "Mavis is the Betty Crocker of software" Though the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The widespread use of computer ...

For anyone who grew up learning how to type from Mavis Beacon (back in the day when computer programs were advertised in catalogs and came in over-sized boxes), this news will come to you as a bit of ...

U.S. film producer and distributor Neon has signed on to produce a new documentary about Mavis Beacon, known as “the most influential Black woman in technology,” who vanished without a trace in 1995.